Terry towel



Aug. 27, 1935. w. HOLT 2,012,719

TERRY TOWEL Filed Oct. 50, 1933 INVENTOR Patented Aug 27.1935 i I v p iV I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE William Holt, Bury, England ApplicationOctober 30, 1933, Serial No. 695,879

a In Great Britain November 17, 1932 1 Claim. (01. 139396) Thisinvention relates to towels of the terry i. e. 20 hanks of 840 yds. ofthe yarn weigh one v type woven from two terry warps and having poundbut whereas the ordinary yarn has 1'7 terry loops of warp yarn on bothsides and is turns per inch, the yarn employed will have 30 designed toprovide a terry towel fabric with a to 40 turns per inch or upwards inthe spinning 5 hard rough friction surface on both sides. and. indoubling instead of say six turns per inch I According to the inventionthe terry towel is the finished warps will have say 12 to 18 turns wovenfrom terry warps all the yarns of which are per inch in the doubling. I

twisted with many turns per inch more than Yarn of 30s counts i. e. 30hanksfof the yarn given to ordinary terry warp threads such as to weighone pound which ordinarily will be spun cause the terry loops when wovenin each to twist with turns per inch will be spun with about itself intoa snarl forming seriesof snarls over 40 turns per inch and doubled withabout 12 to a the entire surface on both sides of the towel. 18 turnsper inch.

y In carrying out the invention the towel is woven The twist mustbe soexcessive over whatis on a terry loom of known construction with theordinarily employed for the same counts of yarn 5 terry warps on one ormore beams and ground that when woven and the tension removed each warpson a separate beam. loop will twist'itself into a snarl a. the productThe invention will .be described with referthen being a terry towelhaving a series of twisted ence to the accompanying drawing:-' snarledloops a over the entire surface on both Fig. 1 is an enlarged sectionaldiagram. sides giving two hard rough friction surfaces. 20 Fig. 2 is agreatly enlarged view'of one of the What I claim as my invention anddesire to terry loops a. protect by Letters Patent is:

For the purpose of the invention the terry warps A'terry towel having arough pile face on both from which the towel is to be woven are two orsides comprised of a plurality of hard snarled. more fold doubled yarn,the yarn in the course of terry 10 Standing out f om the surface ofmanufacture before doubling being more highly highly twisted doubledwarp yarn interwoven with twisted than ordinary yarn of the same countsbinder Warp a d weft yarns'giving two hard rough say double or treblethe number of turns per inch friction surfaces to the towel, the yarnscomprisand on doubling are again similarly, more tightly ing the terryloops being of 20s to s counts twisted than ordinary terry warp of thesame all the terry yarns having 30 to turns per inch 30 counts with twoor three times the number of in the spinning and 12 to 18'turns per inchin the 5 turns per inch. doubling.

As an example the yarn may be say 20s counts I WILLIAM HOLT.

